31.07.2017China Bets on AI
China hopes to make its AI industry a “new, important” driver of economic expansion by 2020,” according to a development plan issued by the State Council. Policy makers hope that the AI industry will generate more than US$60 billion of output per year by 2025. Main areas for development include...

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31.07.2017Garbage Import Ban
China has informed the WTO that it will stop accepting foreign garbage by the end of 2017. The import ban against shipments of waste plastic and paper, among other things, is part of China’s determination to clean up its environmental act. Last year, China imported some 7.3 million tons of waste...